| Acronym | Meaning |
| ISNAR | International Service For National Agricultural Research |
| SPC | Sector Processing Center |
| NDSC | Network For Detection Of Stratospheric Change |
| NQS | Network Queue System |
| TASI | Time-assingment Speech Interpolation |
| BARRNET | Bay Area Regional Research Network |
| ATSR | Along Track Scanning Radiometer |
| DFDR | Digital Flight Data Recorder |
| GC-AED | Gas Chromatography-Atomic Emission Detection |
| GIS | Geographic Information Systems |